ECA and AUDA –NEPAD renew partnership

01Oct 2021
The Guardian Reporter
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ECA and AUDA –NEPAD renew partnership

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Development
Agency-New Partnership for Africa's Development (AUDA-NEPAD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance their partnership.

and collaboration to accelerate the achievement of Africa's Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Signed at the Africa Union Office in New York City on September 27, the MoU aimsto harness synergies arising from the organisations' mandates and establish the non- binding and non-exclusive arrangements necessary to ensure effective cooperationin areas of mutual interest.

Vera Songwe, UN Under-Secretary-General and ECA's Executive Secretary, saidthe MoU is a show of how much the two organizations can pool together and raisetheir ambitions to achieve what needs to be done in regard to Africa's transformation agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development agenda 2030.

Our collaboration will push Africa's agenda forward, especially within the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which we all believe in," said Ms Songwe "We have done well on advocacy in the areas of sustainable energy, climate change, industrialization, digitalization, and health security. But we need to do better on financing.

More advocacy is needed for more financing as we prepare for COP26."The objectives of this MOU are to implement the joint work programme for the period2021-2023 in six broad priority areas of their respective mandates and function; buildresilience for sustainable development in Africa as per Agenda 2063 and Agenda2030; explore any strategic initiatives that might not be part of ongoing mandate butjustified by the importance of unexpected events in line with the six broad priorityareas.

Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, AUDA-NEPAD & Chief Executive Officer, said "Thesigning of the MoU shows high level of credibility on issues of development of thecontinent especially in the areas of priorities on agenda 2030 and 2063."

The MoU, he said, "Will be a living document that provides deeper cooperationbetween ECA and NEPAD - AUDA teams to work together, especially as the sixareas of cooperation identified in the MoU are in line with what the two organizationshave been doing together."

The operationalisation of this MOU will be guided by the pursuit of a common AfricanUnion vision through the implementation of the Agenda 2063 in concert with theUnited Nations Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development

Areas of cooperation under the MoU include, among other things, Climate Resilienceand Governance, Environmental Sustainability and Natural Resources Management;Sustainable Energy, Nexus Energy-Water-Food and Empowerment of RuralCommunities;

Knowledge Management and Evaluation, and Human and InstitutionalDevelopment; Science, Technology and Innovation; Economic Integration,Macroeconomics and Governance Policy; Wealth Creation - Industrialization.

A previous MoU signed with ECA during the time of the then NEPAD Planning andCoordinating Agency (NPCA) entered into force in October 2014 for three years, withpossibility to be extended for two more years. The same will apply to the new MoU.

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